I get asked a lot by friends of mine and readers of this site if I’d like to be in the main stream say in a magazine or a web site like ESPN or SI or even do a shift on WFAN or WEPN? And I answer of course, who wouldn’t. If WFAN or WEPN contacted me t do a shift on their station I wouldn’t be able to zip my pants due to my arousal but then I read a story like this about ESPN personality Dana Jacobson and I wonder if by going main stream do you give up your right to free speech?
I’m sure most of you have heard about Jacobson. She was at a roast for Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic of Mike and Mike in the Morning in Atlantic City and it seems she had a little too much vodka and when it was her turn to speak she took to the podium yelling out “Fuck Notre Dame, Fuck Touchdown Jesus and Fuck Jesus. Now I am a Roman Catholic who tries to practice his faith but I have to say if I were at that event I probably would have peed in my pants watch this amazon drunk chick carrying on like that.
Well, it seems that some folks were offended by Jacobson’s remarks. You see in America everyone is always offended. You can’t say God Bless you to someone who sneezes I was told at a sensitivity training class I had to attend because myself and fellow co-workers used profanity in the work place. Not at anyone in particular but at a printer that was “too fucking slow” and my physical state as ” I was fucking tired” someone over heard these statements and we were all called on the carpet. Oh yeah don’t even think of having a Christmas Party it must called a Holiday Party. When this was brought up in a meeting I raised my hand and asked if anyone wanted to attend a Kiss My Ass party that I will be having so I guess you know why I was in the first seat first row at sensitivity training.
Anyway back to Jacobson, here she is at a roast, which if you have ever been to one saying Fuck Jesus, is pretty tame, for Mike Golic who went to Notre Dame so you can see why Jacobson went the way she did. But of course she got suspended for saying this because in America in 2008 you can’t say things that might offend someone. I think that’s why blogs are so popular because it’s seems to be the last place freedom of speech can be exercised.
I can come here and tell you how I think the Skill Sets are doing good or bad. I can call out the GM of the Mets and tell him to wake up and get to work. I can tell manager Willie Randolph to read Earl Weaver’s book WEAVER ON STRATEGY and he can’t do shit to me. But isn’t that what free speech is? If Don Imus wants to make fun of a women’ basketball team can’t he just say he’s sorry and move on and not lose his job? Can’t we just sit back and laugh at Al Sharpton as he becomes a real life Foghorn Leghorn? Can’t we allow Anne Coulter the right to speak as we try to figure out how she straps down her penis? Can’t we look at Keith Olberman and say gee Keith your so much smarter than us but you still coundn’t get laid in an Amsterdam whore house with Guilders on your forehead . Don’t you laugh Bill O’Reily with your pants around your ankles making sex calls on the phone. What’s that President Bush? Yes Elmo is a “funny little fellow”and no I don’t know how he goes to the bathroom without a pee-pee.
Sorry for the rant today boys and girls but I can’t get worked up over signing a fourth outfielder to a 2 year deal. The long slow off season continuesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
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This post was written by kranepool on January 23, 2008
We have our heads so far up our collective asses. With all that is going on around the world, and in our own country - we’re getting screwed over every which way possible, yet somehow we think we have the luxury to pay such close attention to celebrities personal lives.
If we would pay a little bit more attention to things that really matter maybe we would realize that living in a free country means you have a right to be a jackass. And it’s not our god-given right as an American to never be scared or offended.
We have completely lost the ability to have balanced reactions to things. Don Imus says “ho,” and we cry about it for three weeks. But a soldier gets killed in Afghanistan and we barely pause to get the details.
Blogs are great for people like you and me to scream and yell. Hopefully we’ll still have this ability in five years. Preserve Net neutrality!
http://savetheinternet.com/
oh, and lets go mets.
Great post. No need to apologize. What you said needed to be said.
Well Steve, you’ve touched on a major sore spot for me. I think this country is going down the tubes so fast with political correctness. These days everyone is programmed to speak out if something offends you. When I was growing up, I was taught that if something offends me, then don’t watch it or go near it and to just ignore it - not today. Everybody wants to change the way everything is done these days and like you said, Christmas is one of those major things. When did it become a crime to tell someone “Merry Christmas”. I could write about 100 pages on this subject from everything to saying the Pledge in school to being afraid to say hello to a woman in the workplace for fear of having sexual harrassment charges brought on you. Since when did we let the smaller groups decide what we can and can’t say?
I’m 100% red white and blue but I have to be honest - I’m almost embarrassed to be an American these days. This country is in a sad state of affairs. We are an ignorant people in this country and we don’t even practice manners anymore, it’s just me me me. Maybe it’s not like that in places other than southern NJ but what I live with here is a disgrace. Maybe we need to get our asses kicked one of these days to humble us a little. I don’t know.
Look, I’m Catholic too and I’m not offended by what she said. It’s boorish behavior and another argument for people who are planning on a public speaking engagement to avoid taking ‘too much drink’, but I doubt this was some form of theological declaration or a slur on Catholics or Christians generally.
What annoys me about this is that anyone who was at that event knows that this woman was drunk. In the past, bad drunken behavior like this would have been the cause of people to be saddened and embarrassed on the drunk’s behalf. No one would have imagined running to the media with such a non-story. Why is it news now?
There’s too much news coverage these days or too little serious thought given to what passes for news coverage. This woman didn’t do or say anything that was newsworthy - it should have stayed in the room.
and today the fish wraps have about 10 pages on Heath Ledger as homeowners across America are facing forclosure and the dollar isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
I feel awful that a kid that young and so rich is “depressed” becuase his baby’s mama left him but I’m more worried about foregin countries bailing out U.S. Corporation especially those in the Mid East that shoud get 10 pages of news pages
Steve this is why I enjoy blogging and reading bloggers like you who can tell it like it is. We are fans, we are passionate and we all think we can do better than the guy who calls the shots. Fact is, this is the last bastion of free speech around these parts. And by these parts I mean, United States! Well done!!
Blogging allows me the freedom to cut loose on the Coupons(Skill Sets) & anything else:
All this Pure Crap(PC)Speech is sheer “1984″, written in 1948, BTW;
Roasts are, well, Roasts. Unfortunately, ESPN, the Network which appeals to 12 Year Old Males, with all the sex they sell, is OFFENDED?